Finding a Niche for Memetics in the 21st Century

Gatherer, Derek (2005) Finding a Niche for Memetics in the 21st Century. Journal of Memetics-Evolutionary Models of Information Transmission, 6. ISSN 1366-4786

Abstract

In summary, memetics can survive as a data-oriented branch of the social simulation field specializing in the evaluation of co-evolutionary or cultural models. Most of that evaluation will be negative, as the nature of the real world can never be confirmed using a computer model. Nevertheless, it may help us to identify cases where our a priori thinking about a cultural phenomenon is inadequate. Karl Popper would have been pleased with this.